Giles Scott has all but secured Olympic gold with a race to spare, continuing Great Britain's domination of the Finn class.
Few debutants arrived at Rio 2016 shouldering as much expectation as the 29-year-old, who was overwhelming favourite with bookmakers having failed to win just two regattas in this Olympic cycle, getting silver in those two events.
Sir Ben Ainslie's heir to the throne has made light work of that pressure and is now on the brink of continuing Great Britain's 16-year golden Finn record in the Olympics, started by Iain Percy at Sydney 2000.
The result is subject to protest, and Scott will still have to sail in Tuesday's medal race, but an eighth and second on Sunday has made him uncatchable in the double-point finale.
"I know what it meant to me because of the way it made me feel towards the latter stages of that final race," Scott said having returned to dry land, where men's RS:X silver medallist Nick Dempsey was among those waiting.
"I just found myself welling up, getting tingles as it slowly dawned on me what I had done.
"I wouldn't put myself down as the emotional sort but I had a little cry to myself, which I'd like to think I don't do that often.
"Just the emotions that end up coming out of you in that situation, you can't really prepare yourself for it. It was amazing."
Scott knows his dominance of the class in recent years has seen him race with a "target" on his back, but there was no stopping the indomitable Briton in Rio.
"I think if you'd have asked me would I have won the Olympic Games before the medal race in Rio, I'd have said absolutely not just because of the venue it is," Scott said as the sun set over the Marina da Gloria.
"But the racing we've had this week, I've managed to sail more consistently than everybody else at the top of the fleet.
"It has just landed me in this brilliant situation where I've got the points gap I need before the medal race and it's such a privileged situation to be in.
"The next two days for everyone else fighting out for those medals is going to be incredibly, incredibly stressful.
"To be able to say that I am not going to have to go through that is pretty nice."
Nacra 17 duo Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves are through to their medal race, but face a huge ask to get on the podium.
A fine start to the regatta tapered off and now the duo have to win the medal race and hope the stars align perfectly.
"It's not over until it's over, we have to go out and win the medal race so we will attack it and try and get the win," Saxton said.
"Today was tough for us. Looking at the event as a whole, we started really well for the first few days and were in a medal position the whole time.
"We messed up yesterday a little bit, but still were good enough to be in the medals, but today it didn't quite run for us and we are left to look back at some errors.
"Ultimately it has been a wicked experience, you got to look at the good as well as the bad but right now I am pretty gutted."
Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark sit atop the women's 470 standings after another solid day, while Luke Patience and Chris Grube are 10th in the men's event.